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Now that that they station women on Yongsu aka Fiery cross island on permanent basis, We can assume the construction is almost done. via Xinhui

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PLA Navy stations women on Nansha Islands for the 1st time
By Zhao Lei | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-12-11 20:33
The People’s Liberation Army has sent 10 of its female members to join the garrison guarding the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea, according to the PLA Navy.

The first group of female members sent by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to join the garrison guarding the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea is seen in this picture taken on December 11, 2017. [Photo by Li Tang for chinadaily.com.cn]
The Navy said in a news release Monday afternoon that this has been the first time for female service members to be stationed on Nansha Islands, the country’s southernmost territories. They formally started working on Yongshu Reef from Monday.

The 10 women are officers and sergeants with an average age of 23. All of them have a university diploma, the release said, adding they have been assigned to a wide range of posts such as staff, communications and medical service.

The first group of female members sent by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to join the garrison guarding the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea is seen in this picture taken on December 11, 2017. [Photo by Li Tang for chinadaily.com.cn]
Zhang Jiahong, political commissar of the PLA Nansha Islands Garrison, was quoted by the release as saying that these female members will be sent back to the mainland every several months for rest to ensure their health.

Zhou Yaling, one of the women, said Nansha is more beautiful than what they had imagined. “There are airports, harbors, streets, hospitals and sporting grounds. All of them make the islands like a lovely city on the sea,” she was quoted as saying in the release.

Before them, there have been female PLA members on the islands but they were in short missions and still took orders from units that sent them there, the China Daily reporter learned.

Some more Photo not sure if it is stock photo from CCTV One of them show Glass house for growing veggie

 

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Air combat training in SCS, J-10B vs. J-10C?

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From Dafengcao

 

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Here is the video of the women detachment assign to Yongsu

 

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The American PEOPLE, elected Donald J. Trump as President, because we are tired of weak, unmotivated, effeminate leadership! we done wit dat man! We DEMANDED a President who will call it like it is, and we have one, he's not "articulate, polite, or cultured,,, he speaks his mind, and I for one see that as helping us have much better relations with Russian and China to start with,,, even Russia and China were sick of Mr. Flexible!

Please the Dotard in Chief lost the popular vote (the true real vote) by almost 3 million! The Obama hater fan boys are just desperate for any one to get their "good ole boys" days back and are willing to sacrifice immoral behavior of an individual for president. Even China and the rest of the EU nations are getting tired of Comrade Trump and his tweets. He is the American version of Kim Jung Un, they are so much alike.

Ronald Reagan coined the phrase "Peace through Strength!"

In other words, "might makes right," different perspectives, questioning of morality and view points be damn!

 

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Please the Dotard in Chief lost the popular vote (the true real vote) by almost 3 million! The Obama hater fan boys are just desperate for any one to get their "good ole boys" days back and are willing to sacrifice immoral behavior of an individual for president. Even China and the rest of the EU nations are getting tired of Comrade Trump and his tweets. He is the American version of Kim Jung Un, they are so much alike.

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Dennis Rodman is actually right on the money on this one. Trump and Kim are both just posturing.

 

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Dennis Rodman is actually right on the money on this one. Trump and Kim are both just posturing.

Yes, but we should expected more from the POTUS to behave in a more professional manner than getting caught up in a childish tantrum war of words behavior.

 

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Yes, but we should expected more from the POTUS to behave in a more professional manner than getting caught up in a childish tantrum war of words behavior.

Have you read Michael Moore's blogs about Trump?

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Keep in mind that this is the guy who predicted a Trump win when every media outlet, including Fox, was predicting a Clinton presidency.

I think Moore has great insight on Trump.

Trump doesn't really want to be President. He wants to be a celebrity. He can't act, he's not good looking, and his reality show is only of middling popularity, so becoming the POTUS was his way of getting into the limelight.

Compare what has happened in the White House with "The Apprentice".

Compare his tweets with "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".

Now you'll realize that Trump is just running a reality show in the White House.

 

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Have you read Michael Moore's blogs about Trump?

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Keep in mind that this is the guy who predicted a Trump win when every media outlet, including Fox, was predicting a Clinton presidency.

I think Moore has great insight on Trump.

Trump doesn't really want to be President. He wants to be a celebrity. He can't act, he's not good looking, and his reality show is only of middling popularity, so becoming the POTUS was his way of getting into the limelight.

Compare what has happened in the White House with "The Apprentice".

Compare his tweets with "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".

Now you'll realize that Trump is just running a reality show in the White House.

Exactly! He is a showmanship, he is NOT fit to do his job as POTUS in regards to foreign diplomacy, strategic thinking, and negotiating.

 

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While north korea draw attention works goes unabated in SCS. China completed the underground facilities and now building high frequency radar on the north slope of Yongshu aka Fiery cross. this article is based on new report from AMTI
The busy body AMTI come up with new report here is the link. Check it out It got a lot more pic
I guess somebody must pay this people to draw attention to China activity in SCS sea. Satellite image is expensive

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While focus is on North Korea, China continues South China Sea buildup: think tank

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While attention in Asia has been distracted by the North Korean nuclear crisis in the past year, China has continued to install high-frequency radar and other facilities that can be used for military purposes on its man-made islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: Construction is shown on Fiery Cross Reef, in the Spratly Islands,

Underground facilities completed

the disputed South China Sea in this June 16, 2017 satellite image released by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to Reuters on June 29, 2017. MANDATORY CREDIT CSIS/AMTI DigitalGlobe/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Chinese activity has involved work on facilities covering 72 acres (29 hectares) of the Spratly and Paracel islands, territory contested with several other Asian nations, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies. The report cited satellite images.


The United States and its allies oppose China’s building of artificial islands in the South China Sea and their militarization, given concerns Beijing plans to use them to deny access to strategic routes.

The report said that in the last several months China had constructed what appeared to be a new high-frequency radar array at the northern end of Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratlys.

Subi Reef had seen tunnels completed that were likely for ammunition storage and another radar antenna array and radar domes, the report said.

Construction on Mischief Reef included underground storage for ammunition and hangars, missile shelters and radar arrays.

Smaller-scale work had continued in the Paracel Islands, including a new helipad and wind turbines on Tree Island and two large radar towers on Triton Island.

It said the latter were especially important as waters around Triton had been the scene of recent incidents between China and Vietnam and multiple U.S. freedom-of-navigation operations, which the U.S. navy has used to assert what it sees as its right to free passage in international waters.

Woody Island, China’s military and administrative headquarters in the South China Sea, saw two first-time air deployments “that hint at things to come at the three Spratly Island air bases farther south,” the report said.

At the end of October, the Chinese military released images showing J-11B fighters at Woody Island for exercises, while on Nov. 15, AMTI spotted what appeared to be Y-8 transport planes, a type that can be configured for electronic surveillance.

 

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noticed (pictures inside) As tensions ease, China keeps building on disputed islands

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Tensions over China’s island-building in the South China Sea may have eased in the past year, but Beijing has kept busy.

New satellite imagery shows China has built infrastructure covering 72 acres (28 hectares) in the Spratly and Paracel islands during 2017 to equip its larger outposts to be air and naval bases.

The Washington-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative closely tracks developments in the South China Sea, where China and several Asian governments have conflicting territorial claims. It said Thursday there has been construction of hangars, underground storage, missile shelters, radar arrays and other facilities.

The activity comes as China joins what are likely to be protracted negotiations with Southeast Asian nations on a “code of conduct” for South China Sea. Tensions with the U.S. on the issue have also eased, despite Washington’s criticism of Beijing’s conduct.

The construction is the follow-up phase to a campaign of land reclamation that was completed by early 2016 in the Spratlys, an island chain where Malaysia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei also have claims. According to the Pentagon, China has added more than 3,200 acres (1,248 hectares) of land to the seven land features it occupies in the area.

China also seems to have halted smaller-scale operations to expand islands in the Paracels that lie farther north, the initiative said.

The U.S. and others have accused Beijing of further militarizing the region and altering geography to bolster its sweeping claims across the South China Sea. China says the man-made islands in the Spratlys, which are equipped with airstrips and military installations, are mainly for civilian purposes and to boost safety for fishing and maritime trade.

Greg Poling, the initiative’s director, said China had seized a diplomatic opening after the election of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who adopted a conciliatory stance toward Beijing over their territorial dispute. It’s also been less of a focus for President Donald Trump’s administration, preoccupied by North Korea’s nuclear threat and trade disputes with China.

“It’s gotten off the front pages, but we shouldn’t confuse that with a softening in China’s pursuit of its goals. They are continuing all the construction they want,” Poling said.

The most construction has been on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratlys, including hangars alongside its 10,000-foot (3,000-meter) airstrip, underground structures likely intended to house munitions or other materiel, hardened shelters for missile platforms, and communication and radar facilities, the initiative said.

It also noted that China has deployed new military aircraft at Woody Island in the Paracels. At the end of October, the Chinese military released images of J-11B fighter planes there for drills. In mid-November, Y-8 transport aircraft were spotted on the same island that may be capable of electronic intelligence gathering.

Marine Lt. Col. Christopher Logan, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday that he could not comment in detail on U.S. assessments of the region but that “further militarization of outposts will only serve to raise tensions and create greater distrust among claimants.”

The United States does not claim territory in the South China Sea but has declared it has a national interest in ensuring that the territorial disputes there are resolved peacefully in accordance with international law and that freedom of navigation and overflight are guaranteed. China has opposed what it calls U.S. meddling in an Asian dispute.